Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-10

tNlA AiNAtt
N.opLxss Misuse or GOOD ENGLISH
WORDS.
Our northern countrymcn, being no
longer in fear OF highlands King, arc
in the habit OF taking liberties with the
Kings English 10y misuSing words ina
manner tending 10 reduce the language
10 iargon. They perter good CLASH
cal word TO strange misuse when they
employ prcQotcRcg in the sense OF pro-
creation. as il IL came from such verb
as prcpote. thus used, il is a word
very threatening to tho integrity OF all
accented pcdigrccs. For, il Gabriel.
four wears dead and buried in Upper
Marlboro, Md, and doubtless then
officiating 81 archanRel in horse-hcaven,
could 20 , rtpoiC Castianira. n hundred
o,,d f.lv mics OF az Ben Lomond, on
f,,rg Tyns0. as 80 steal from Diomed
tLe honor OF Sir Archy's paternity,
VIA; is 10 become 81 all our pedigrees q?
I'm the time 81 the sia9e-coaches ]
once irale q stop az q wayside tavern,
whose proprietor pfided himself III the
ownership of quite iine-looking colt
,ierrcd out with him 10 look NJ the
wearing. and naturally asked about
ucdic1ce. Oh yes, he said very prompt
". he WAS by thc Godolpbin Arabian
an. OF 4 mare Of his own, whose sire
was the neighboTing horse Jug-of-Rum
1 asked If there might not be some
mistake about the colts sire, as / was
of tho impression that the Godolphin
had died IN 1853, JUS, a huadred years
before. oh no, be replied, such fine
colt rs that must hure bcc, produced
bv tie Godolphin. The logic was ire
si,iiblc. it was another case of pTcpo-
lion
viii mention another word even
mere cruelty misused by our country
men aforesaid. 1t is the noun sub
stantiyc, sire. used 10y them AS "pre-
lotcnt verb. John Randolph of Ro-
an,ke once complained to MIR. Skin
uer. the editor Of tie american T,uT
EcgisfcT, for having allowed CORE
sloadcnt to use ,he phrase "Black
Maria was Sircd lay Eclipse; protest
ing that II would hc quite as correct 10
>ay that she was d1mcG by Lady Light
foot. Certainly il would be very I'M
natural for q mother TO dam her own
offspring.
30 not believe that Ouroc, half
brother of Sir krchy, was uDsound,
either in wind, limb, or constitu-
non. Horses of his day that ran
tour mile-hest races, and made yearly
over lsnd trips on foot between courses
hundreds Of miles apart. naturally went
occasionally amiss in their feet and
legs. The wonder IL. not that they
sometimes lost condition. but that they
were able to run heat races over courses
80 far apart at all and their perform
ancc OF work so wOndrOus was proof of
their marvellous stamina and an inhe-
rent s0undness not found in our own
times.
HISTORY AND PERFORMANCES OF AMANDA,
DURoC's DAN.
/ do not doubt the sOundness of
luIoc, although Mr.. Helm never
alludcs 10 him or his descendants with
ont s;crcotyped itcratiOns of intirnity
and defect, so constantly repeated as to
drfrat his own object by fatiguing his
r,adcIs. "The lady doth protest too
much. nethinks. But il we must
nccGs adopt the theory that he was I'M
sound. we need net 80 10 Diomed as the
source. Amanda. the dam of Duroc.
wns rorely without trouble in her feet
and legs. when on the turf.
In her first great race, which was ut
TrOad Rock, near Richmond, in which
she distanced oil her competitors ex-
cept Whiskey. the record says: g In
this race Amanda injured her Jectj
Notwithstanding which | ran her the
same season at Fredericksburg, Va, on
a hardcourse, when, fHding her Jaifi9J
trO4H aiacncSS, / drew her from the
contest.
Her next race was at Richmond
Tree Hid, where she contended with
Topgalant (sOn of Iiomed) and Law
Ms. The conditions were, &c, &c.
On these terms / entered her, although
thought by me to be out Of order. She
was beaten by Topgallant, but beat
Iav.nia.
a stake was then made up of five
subscribers Tin which she ran against
that great son of Diomed, Balls Flori-
zcn. The rnce was won by FloriZel
Amanda second all the other horses
distanced. In this race, in the last half
mile, Amanda started a SincW, was
taken out OF training, and the
next spring 0S05) put to Do
med. the foal being Duroc, June,
1896. Amanda went TO Diomed in
the year that Sir Archy was foaled.
Her owner, Mr.. Wade Mosby, lived in
ToNhatan county, lying on the south
side Of James river, next west OF CheS-
ierteld ami opposite TO Goochland, SIR
Arcly's native county. as Powhatan was
that OF Duroc. CastiGnira had III 1876
left Zen LomOnd, on the James, and
cone back to Colonel Tayloe, at Mt.
Any. ON the Rappahannock, leaving the
ycariing Sir Archy still with Captain
Randolph. Diomed was still at Tree
Hill. in Henrico county, next east OF
Goochland, in the vicinity of Rich
u.ond. and it was there that Amanda
was cent from PowhataD, across the
river.
II there was any constitutional in-
iiImiiy in Duroc, which there was NOT
it came from his dam Amanda, who
Ls,,pcn,d To be out OF fix III her feet
end Ices in her great races, and dld not
G., NE from that horse OF iron, Dlomed.
In what have said of Amanda, the
celebrated dam Of Duroc, granddam OF
American Eclipse, and great-granddam
Of Black Maria, ] have been actuated
hv no disposition TO detract from her
claims to unqualified appreciation.
20 not believe that her lameneas was
constitutional. / do not believe III the
reality Of the imagined inhrmity OF
con,tilution attributed to her great and
only soal. Duroc. do not believe that
any infirmities which may have be-
l1qed to descendants of Duroe. II
there were any, were derived from HIM
Hcand his descendants were crossed III
many Ways with scrub animals acci-
dcn,slly possessing the trotting anato-
lny. Were the legs and feet Of all these
necessarily, invariably, infallibly sound
and lovely? May hint that they were
not? CeiQ ga sans dire.
concur With Mr.. Helm in his high
o,anion of imported Medley, the grand
,ir of Amanda, and of English CHM
crack, Mcdley's sire. The sire of Aman-
da's dam was imported Bedford, OF
whom Il is enough to say that he was
the grandson of English Eclipse and OF
English Higbfyer. Amanda was. there